Can A Basketball Team Go 8 Games In A Row.....
....without calling one single timeout?
Yes, according to Jackie MacMullan at the Boston Globe:
(In reference to Russ Granik's recent resignation)
Granik's shining moments included his role in the formation of the Dream Team, a
collection of future Hall of Famers (Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson,
and Charles Barkley, to name four) that stormed through the 1992 Olympics
without losing a game -- and without coach Chuck Daly ever having to call a
timeout.
There's gotta be a site somewhere to cerify that statement. If true, that's pretty amazing. I checked the homesite of USA Basketball and all I could find was a summary of the olympics. Some fo the final stats for the team are very interesting. A team made up of Charles Barkley, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Chris Mullin, Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, David Robinson, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, John Stockton, and Christian Laettner had these intriguing stats...
- Barkley shot 71.1% and was 7-8 from the 3 point line.
- Everyone on the team shot better than 50% except for Laettner (45%) and Jordan (45.1%).
- The highest rebounding average was 5.3 shared by Malone and Ewing.
- Jordan averaged 4.6 steals per game.
- Pippen (47) and Jordan (38) led the team in assists.
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Check out the '96 team for more stats http://www.usabasketball.com/history/moly_1996.html
Barkley shot 81.6% in '96.
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